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LYNN SEATON BIERMA
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 13, 1947 – April 26, 1967
Service recordLynn Seaton Bierma, of Cozad, Nebraska, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 26, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 91 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 91
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- July 13, 1947
- Home of record
- Cozad, Nebraska (Dawson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 26, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
49 names on the Wall carry the date April 26, 1967; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 73 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 91
- JOHN GILBERT BROADBECKPrivate First Class · April 26, 1967
- RICHARD TYRONE BROWNPrivate First Class · April 26, 1967
- LARRY WAYNE BUTLERLance Corporal · April 26, 1967
- DANA CORNELL DARNELLLance Corporal · April 26, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JERRY BAGLEYSpecialist Four · Panel 18E, Line 90
- RICHARD TYRONE BROWNPrivate First Class · Panel 18E, Line 91
- DAVID RONALD PAGEStaff Sergeant · Panel 18E, Line 96
- HERMAN HOWARD PAYNESecond Lieutenant · Panel 18E, Line 96
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.